US media giant 21st Century Fox has made a takeover approach for Sky that values the UK-based satellite broadcaster at £18.5bn. The proposed offer is worth £10.75 a share in cash, a premium of 36%...
The Electoral Commission has announced that the result would be declared tomorrow. However, based on the results received from EC’s collation centres, the Media General is set to project...
The Electoral Commission has announced that the result would be declared tomorrow. However, based on the results received from over 230 collation centres, the Media General is set to project...
The women were serving as medics at a field hospital in western Aleppo. A mortar struck the hospital on Monday. A Russian paediatrician seriously wounded in that attack also received the medal. A...
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi resigned on Wednesday after a bruising referendum loss at the weekend, with most parliamentary factions pushing for an early election in a few months' time. The...
There are long queues at polling stations in Ghana amid a tight election race between President John Mahama and veteran opposition leader Nana Akufo Addo. All seven candidates have pledged to keep...
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi will hand in his resignation on Friday, a parliamentary source said, as President Sergio Mattarella seeks to slow the pace of an unfolding political crisis. Renzi...
South Korea's military cyber command, set up to guard against hacking, appears to have been breached by North Korea, the military has said. A spokesman told the BBC that classified information was...
“To the Police, be the police; non partisan, be as neutral as transparent as you can, be accessible to all and deliver those services that the Ghanaian people so deserve from a police service,”...
Floods in Thailand have killed 14 people and badly affected southern holiday islands as the country heads into the December-January high season for tourism, authorities said on Tuesday. A low...
Islamic State fighters retreating in the face of a seven-week Iraqi military assault on their Mosul stronghold have hit back in the last two days, exploiting cloudy skies which hampered U. S.-led air...
Fidel Castro’s ashes have been laid to rest in the Cuban city of Santiago, nine days after his death at 90. Crowds lined the streets to see the cortege heading to the Santa Ifigenia cemetery for a...
The winner of Gambia's presidential election told Reuters on Saturday he was keen to form a new cabinet to get cracking with reforms, a day after veteran leader Yahya Jammeh stunned the tiny west...
Don't blink. You might miss another jump in oil prices. Crude has spiked 14% in just the past three days, ending Friday at a 17-month high of $51.68 a barrel. OPEC breathed new life into crude this...
Dozens of coffins carrying those killed when a plane flying Brazil's Chapecoense soccer team crashed into a Colombian mountain were loaded onto Brazilian air force planes for their final journey home...
Some 3.6 million people in South Sudan face severe food shortages - the highest levels ever experienced at harvest time - and the crisis is likely to worsen when food from the current harvest runs...
U. S. President-elect Donald Trump invited Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte to the White House next year during a "very engaging, animated" phone conversation, a Duterte aide said on Friday, amid...
Can we now talk about Yahya Jammeh? The man who wears the most suspicious smile in the world. A cheery face is the last you would expect of an African warrior as masculine as Mr Jammeh , the man who...
U. S. employers likely boosted hiring in November amid growing confidence in the economy, making it almost certain that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates later this month. Nonfarm...
Tens of thousands of Muslims are rallying in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, against the city's Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, who is accused of insulting the Quran. Protesters chanting, praying...
